Where too many theories don’t work! Amartya Sen was in India recently and he was at his usual best: brilliant, insightful and oh, too many stimulating words and suggestions. So too another Nobel Prize economist, the American Joseph Stiglitz too was in India and he too was so brilliant and made very many insightful points….
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Living through cynical times!
Javed Akhtar on society’s values! Society’s education perceptions and priorities After going through the BJP education minister days it seems a springtime under Mr.Arjun Singh, the new HRD minister. But poor Mr.Singh! Can he deliver on the promises of the government? We mean the education for all and the midday meals targets? We are not…
What use universities? Indians becoming mental slaves!
How to understand our times? Are we not living under the American empire? are not our intellectual beliefs, our uppie culture, consumerism make us already mental slaves of American power There are manychallenges for India. As the largest democracy it had survived the post-Independence period. India’s many capabilities make us a serious contender for a…
Gokhale, Gandhi and Tagore : What is their impact on Indian Education?
Excerpts from an autobiography Gopal Krishna Gokhale was a remark able Indian in his time.He was considered the greatest living Indian,said Annie Besant in a letter to Gokhale. Lord Curzon,the headstrong imperialist Viceroy wrote to his boss,the secretary of state that Gokhale was the most able and also the most morally upright Indian member of…
Dr. S. Radhakrishnan : What is his legacy for Indian education?
Only a rudimentary Indian education. He had certainly no Western education. Thus, his education thought and philosophy as such was very orthodox, thought it was cast in the pre-colonial mental makeup. Take the life of Dr. S. Radhakrishnan.I gave a second reading of his biography his son and distinguished history writer Savapalli Gopal this time…
Autobiographical : What history I studied?
My Oxford years : crowded by philosophers and historians! A.J.P.Taylor, Isiah Berlin, James Joll Indians need to learn to distrust much of British written history. The immediate provocation for this essay is the reading of A.J.P. Taylor (1906-1990), the well-known British historian, for the second time. I had the good fortune to attend his history…
Nobel Laureate says India has no thinkers!
50 Vice Chancellors meet:what they will achieve? V.S.Naipaul, the Nobel Prize winning author of Indian origin is known for his provocative remarks. He is a maverick. In a recent interview to New York Times he said: there are no thinkers in India! A country of one billion people, he says, has no thinkers! It is…
Dreams remain-Truth seekers defy conventional wisdom!
Truth seekers defy conventional wisdom! Truth seekers are two kinds. Those who advance knowledge and those who advance our morality! Truth seekers are the most god-given people. Or, the chosen people, we can say without any religious overtones! Just now I read about Francis Bacon, the founder of modern science. Born on January 22, 1561,…